THE SEATTLE GUM WALL

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ART is in the eye of the beholder. I need to be here.

Located in Post Alley, under Park Place Market, the Gum Wall began in the early 1990s, when people, irritated that they had to wait in line to the theater, stuck chewing gum on the wall. At first, they would use the gum to stick small coins to the wall, but in time, the tradition of the coins disappeared, and the gum remained.

Theater attendants scraped the wall twice, but gave up in 1999, when it became a certified tourist attraction of Seattle. Filled with thousands of pieces of gum, it has become an urban art piece.